The recession has hit the Midwest hard. Traditionally home to big manufacturing plants, the latest economic downturn has been especially difficult for industry-based communities that had already struggled for years … Read more
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Into the Gap: Can Round-the-World Trips Justify Their Emissions Cost?
NWF November 18, 2009 “In my senior year of high school, I was basically planning to go to college and just keep taking classes in the things I’d done well … Read more
Learning from the Ancients: Passive Solar Design
NWF November 18, 2009 Passive solar design techniques have been employed by humans for centuries, going back as far as first century Greeks who designed entire south-facing communities to give … Read more
Hands Off That Hood! Saving Energy in the Lab
NWF November 10, 2009 University laboratories are already known to consume five to ten times more energy than any other building on campus. Respectively, many energy-saving campaigns have been targeted … Read more
Capturing Student Energy
Molly Murfee October 27, 2009 Student Peter Hoy used to think advertising was “evil,” an enterprise that supported the commercialism that depleted the world’s natural resources. But after one … Read more
Taking the Pulse of Climate Disruptions
NWF October 27, 2009 From restaurant table to the law courts to hospital rooms, students at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), … Read more
